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Remove the yoke and heat it until spit sizzles on it, then press out the stem. Take stem to machinist and get them to turn you up another one. Press it into yoke after heating yoke. Reassemble with greater care.Pete
Just grind or file the first couple of threads away. a thread file would help, they are not expensive.It's hard to tell in the picture if the triangular area is damage or just grease.It looks as though the retaining nut has at least 3/4" of thread.
Now that's why I love my guzzi...It's the guzzi people. Good on you foto.
I'm sending a used triple tree tomorrow morning.. the bearing might even be good with a little flush/clean up.
Groover, The tree I have looks like the one on the left. Send me the length and I will measure it.
It depends on the angle of the front end dangle + sideloaded weight for the angle that makes them bind. In a perfect world the post falls out of the bearing as you raise the front end. If the wheel is cocked wrong or you lift from the wrong angle it can load and bind. Sometimes its easy for me and sometimes I need to put a soft mallet to the post to coax it out. I can have either situation servicing the same bearing
Do you actually need to have the steering stem fitted when you press the outer races in the steering head? It might not be exactly the same but I've just done this on my V7Sport rebuild here https://racingrhino.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/the-forks-are-on-3-may-2015/. Have I missed something?
I think those long shaft short thread types must have been made with tighter tollerances. See the photo I posted above and that shows how tight the bearing was upon removal (shiny). I had a really hard time getting mine out too and though maybe I was just not doping something right or o just didn't eat my wheaties that day.I made a thread on this just a few weeks ago. http://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=75788.new;topicseen#newI'm probably going to sand down the shaft before putting the new bearing in. It was way too tight in my opinion, and now I see I'm not the only one with this issue.